Translations
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
then the raging waters would have swept over our nephesh.
then the proud, raging waters would have overwhelmed our very being.
then the raging waters would have swept us away.
Footnotes
Hazzeidonim (from zadon "presumption/arrogance"), describes the waters as not merely turbulent but morally insolent—waters that overstep their appointed bounds. Ancient Near Eastern cosmology portrayed chaotic waters as a force of anti-creation (cf. Gen. 1; Ps. 93; Job 38:8–11). F.O.G. renders "raging" to foreground the physical menace; F.O.G.M. adds "proud" to surface the theological dimension of rebellious chaos-waters—waters that presume to undo what God made.

